SAS Programming 3: Advanced Techniques and Efficiencies

This course is for SAS programmers who prepare data for analysis. The comparisons of manipulation techniques and resource cost benefits are designed to help programmers choose the most appropriate technique for their data situation.

Learn how to
compare various SAS programming techniques that enable you to

benchmark computer resource usage

control memory, I/O, and CPU resources

create and use indexes

combine data horizontally

use hash and hiter DATA step component objects and arrays as lookup tables

compress SAS data sets

sample your SAS data sets

create and use SAS data views

safely reduce the length of numeric variables

create user-defined functions and informats.

Who should attend

Experienced SAS programmers

Formats available

Duration

This course is not appropriate for beginning SAS software users. Before attending this course, you should have at least nine months of SAS programming experience and should have completed the SAS Programming 2: Data Manipulation Techniques course. Specifically, you should be able to do the following: